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Sunday, 29 April 2012

To mess with the natural order, we need a story to build up with. A story of some other "souls" that will make a reaper disobey or playing tricks on. I need a story that has different emotions and they have to be extreme. The emotions that can change a person to turn into either a hero or a villain. Just like what two-face said in the movie "Dark Knight", "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
The video below is a group project in my third-year of Uni. The character - Julie in the trailer has found a book and everything she wrote in that book came true. She was getting addicted to the feeling of being a "god" and when she realized what she has done, its too late. What is done can't be undone, she has to pay for the price.



Lilith by John Collier
"Supernatural" natural also had crossroad demon which makes deals with humans so I did some research on it and I found this "Deal_with_the_Devil". Basically is that you can offer your soul in exchange for diabolical favors.

In Christian view,  demons are believed to have the ability to posses orinhabit the body of humans and some believe demons to be actual physical beings that can take the form of anything(including small children. ) such as Incubi and succubi.
Christians also believed that Lilith was Adam's first wife who later became a succubus.

Up to this stage, I have an outline of my story that is to crossover the myths of reaper and demons. The reaper can offer humans to sell their souls in return of their favors.






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Labels: Inspirations, story

research for reaper

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

There are different versions in every religions about the afterlife destinations, including...

  • Transcendent places: Heaven, hell, limbo, purgatory, underworld, Yomi
  • Reincarnation: after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant. (wikipedia)
  • Spirit/ghost: Manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person, without "meat-suit" body. In some religions, they would stay in the human world.
  • Zombie: Contrast with spirit/ghost, They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses without souls.
Reapers don't belong to any of them above. They are the medium between human world and transcendent places. They kept the natural order in balance and their jobs are to collect every soul under order of God of death. It is also given the name of the Angel of Death or Devil of Death or the angel of dark and light stemming from the Bible. In Chinese mythology, Reaper is called Ox-head and horse-face "They are the first people a dead soul meets upon arriving in the Underworld; in many stories they directly escort the newly dead to the Underworld" They worked for Yama.
Ox-head and horse-face in Chinese mythology

According to these research, reapers always work under orders of superior, which means in a way they are no differences to human beings who work under their bosses. Therefore, I was thinking if everyone has to work under orders, why not try the opposite.  Try disobeying, try rebellious, try messing up the natural order, try making up a total different mind rather than following boring rules! If we can't do something like this in actual life, at least we can write a story about it.

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Labels: Inspirations, reaper, research

Inspirations - (Supernatural) Reaper





As I love all these mystery and horror stuff, the American TV series "Supernatural" is one of my favorite.

In the drama, they have Demons, Lucifer, Angels, Ghosts, Vampires, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Leviathans and Shapeshifters...etc, all these monsters in the myth, they even named the character and told the story after different religions. Such as Lillith which was Lucifer's second-in-command.

The reaper in it's true form

One of the character that interested me is the grim reaper.
"Reapers are servants of Death. They assist in maintaining the Natural Order, and are completely neutral, not aligned with Heaven or Hell nor Purgatory."(reference)
Their job is to escorting souls to where they belong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tcCTzodhw

The reaper turns into a girl named Tessa
Reapers(in Supernatural) tried to convince the spirits to let go and come with them but they couldn't tell where they were going.
Reapers were able to change the appearances to different forms.

If I were the reaper and wanted to monitor you, I would have turn into something that you could trust, such as a person, a pet...etc.



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Labels: Inspirations, reaper

Inspirations

Monday, 2 April 2012

I have been watching horror, mystery and thriller movies since I was young. For all the horror movies, you will always have to guess why the ghost died? who is the killer/murderer? who is behind everything. Its always the same ending. Found out the story about the ghost, thats it. To be honest I'm getting bored of this concept of a movie. Therefore, if I would have to make a movie, I would make one that the audiences get to choose different endings.

Research :

Movie - interactive by talking


Website - interactive by clicking
http://www.survivetheoutbreak.com/

For the interactive movie about, I reckon it is a great idea that you can interact with the audiences during the movie. Every decision you make will create different endings. Put it this way, it is more like those personality test you see in magazines and website, every choice you make would finalize what kind of person you are.

I think it is very important to have different perspectives in a story. To look at things in different angels and positions.

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Student from RMIT Uni in Melbourne. Bachelor of Design(Multimedia Systems). Interested in Illustrations, graphic design, Video art, 3D modelling. Now freelance at project 628.

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